Speaking Schedule

Talks 2019 - 2023

2021

  • March 2-4, speaking at New College, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

  • March 5, Public seminar, the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland.

  • March 8, the 2020 James Gregory lecture, University of St Andrews. 

  • March 9, the 2020 James Gregory lecture, The University of Edinburgh.

  • March 10, speaking at New College, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

2020

  • Feb. 16, “Unlikely Allies: Why Religion and Science are Both Needed for Us to Respond Adequately to the Climate Crisis,” And “Spirituality with and without God?,“ San Diego Sunday Assembly.

  • March 4, “Addressing Root Causes and Promoting the Common Good: Rethinking the Role of Philosophy, Indigenous Traditions and Religion in Environmental Studies,” Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference, Eugene, OR. 

  • March 9-10, Ecotheology lecture, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, Canada.

  • April 24-25,  Talk on “Ecological Civilization and Organic Communitarianism,” 14th International Forum on Ecological Civilization, Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College, 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA; http://postmodernchina.org/14_IF.htm

  • May 18-20, Co-organizer and speaker, The Inaugural W12 Congress: The First International Meeting of Cities facing Water Challenges, Cape Town International Convention Center, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • June 4-5, “Science and Process Philosophy,” Claremont School of Theology summer course, Claremont, CA.

  • June 12-14, keynote speaker for the Cosmos & Creation annual conference, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD. 

  • June 27-28, speaker at the John Templeton Foundation annual board meeting, Wicklow, Ireland. 

  • Sept. 8-10, meeting of the boards of the three Templeton philanthropies.

  • Sept. 22-26, helping to organize and speaking at the third annual “Transition City Seoul” week-long series of conferences, sponsored by Mayor Park, Seoul, Korea.

  • November 20-24, American Academy of Religion annual meetings, Boston, MA

  • December 1-4, presenting at the “Water, Megacities and Global Change” International Conference, UNESCO World Headquarters, Paris, France.

2019

  • March 23, presentation on “Science and Spirituality” at the Interfaith Forum “For the
    Love of Tomorrow” organized by the Los Angeles Muslim community, The
    Shakespeare Club, Pasadena, CA

  • April 20, “Ecological Civilization and Holistic Human Development,” Pitzer College,
    Claremont, CA.

  • May 3, “Emergentist Panpsychism,” The Pacific Coast Theological Society, Graduate
    Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.

  • June 17-18, Co-led Process Philosophy and Ecological Civilization mini-conference, Willamette University, Salem, OR.

  • July 5, Bi-yearly national Jain convention (“JAINA”): gave a keynote address to conference participants (2,000 people were at the convention), and also spoke on Jainism in American education.

  • August 3, “God? An Evening of Story, Science, Philosophy and Conversation,” an “Emergent” (post institutional religion) event in downtown Santa Barbara, CA.

  • Sept 15, co-led a one-day seminar at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus, ““Vermont
    2050: Roadmap to the Future, a Bio-Regional Approach.

  • Sept. 28, “Toward a Theology of Radical Freedom,” Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

  • Sept. 30, “Redefining the Relationship of Nature and Science,” conference on “Ecological Transition: from Philosophy to Policy,” co-sponsored by the Prime Minister’s Office, Seoul Museum of History, Yajuge Hall, Seoul, Korea.

  • Oct. 3, “The Religions of Non-violence and Ecological Civilization,” dinner keynote at the Yeoju Eco-Forum on Interfaith Dialogue and Ecological Civilization, Daejin University, Yeoju, Korea.

2018

  • Jan 29, “Interreligious Discourse,” Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT.

  • Feb. 23, “Varieties of Panpsychism,” keynote, Paderborn, Germany.

  • Mar. 26: “So We Changed the Climate: What’s Happening and How Religious People Can Help,” The Bullard Templeton Lecture in Religion & Science, Methodist University, Fayetteville NC.

  • Apr. 22, “Nature – and Beyond? Immanence and Transcendence in Science and Religion,”ESSSAT
    keynote lecture, Université Catholique de Lyon, Lyon, France.

  • May - June, Iftar dinner lectures (up to 300 people) in Houston and Cleveland, and at
    a synagogue in Tarzana, CA.

  • July 8-12, teach at Vancouver School of Theology and an evening lecture at St.
    Andrew's-Wesley United Church in downtown Vancouver.

  • July 15-16, lectures in the theology and the philosophy of science at Oxford University.

  • Aug 11, speak at Santa Monica Baha'i Church.

  • Sept. 30, speak at an interfaith event sponsored by the Jain Center of Southern California.

  • Oct. 9-16, lecture trip to Korea. Multiple lectures on ecotheology and ecological civilization.

  • Nov. 1-7, trip to World Parliament in Toronto. I worked with the Executive Director and senior staff for over a year to organize the Justice track, one of seven core tracks at the Parliament. I also served as emcee for the three-hour Justice plenary.

  • Nov. 9-10, keynote lecture, “Does Mind Emerge from Matter,” at the “Consciousness, Nature,
    Transcendence” conference at Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA.

  • Nov. 15-20, AAR in Denver. Multiple papers.

2017

  • Jan. 20-21, “New Frontiers in Theology” conference (keynote, panels, breakout
    sessions), Redondo Beach, CA.

  • March. 8-12, United Methodist Church summit on UMC and homosexuality, Emory University
    School of Theology, Atlanta, GA. Presented a keynote paper (later published)
    and participated in multiple breakout groups.

  • April 1, spoke at an event on ecological socialism
    and climate collapse at an event co-organized with the President of George
    Washington University at GWU.

  • April 21, “Emergent Universe, Emergent Faith,” annual lectureship, Gustavus Adolphus
    College, St. Peter, Minnesota.

  • Apr 30 –May 3, Lyford Key, Bahamas, lecture on interreligious studies for a workshop
    hosted by the John Templeton Foundation, later published as a book.

  • May 19, “Science, Ethics, and Free Will: Why Neuroscience Doesn’t Ground Freedom, and What We Might Resolve to Do about It,” keynote address for conference on “What’s with
    Free Will?  Ethics and Religion after Neuroscience,” Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA.

  • June 11-14, presentation at and participation in a seminar on active materials (part
    of the New Materialism movement), Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

  • July 8, keynote at a large (800-person) interfaith conference at the Long Beach Convention
    Center, Long Beach, CA.

  • Aug. 9-12, “Constructive Panentheism: Creation, Participation, Contingency, Theosis,” presented
    at conference of the Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich, Germany.

  • Aug. 14-15, invited by the German-government-funded Institute for Advanced Sustainability
    Studies (IASS) to participate a two-day consultation on “Ecological Civilization:
    A Mindset for the Anthropocene” at the IASS headquarters in Potsdam (near
    Berlin).

  • Oct. 3-6, multiple lectures and consultations at the Université Catholique de Lyon,
    France, including one on ecotheology and one on the papal encyclical Laudato Si.

  • Oct. 6-7, two presentations in Stuttgart, Germany: one keynote at the Katholische Akademie on “Gott und die Wissenschaften: Versuch eines konstruktiven Panentheismus,” and one presentation and leading a discussion evening at an emergent church in Stuttgart.

  • Oct. 14, Interfaith Panel on Justice for the World Parliament of Religions, Santa Monica, CA.

  • Nov. 16-21, AAR in Boston. Multiple presentations.

2016

  • Jan. 5, “Why Ecological Civilization Requires a Process Worldview,” First Methodist church, Raleigh, NC.

  • Jan. 6, “The Need for Thought on Civilizational Change: The Prospect of Ecological Civilization(s),” Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC.

  • Jan. 9, “The Space between the Atoms: To What does the Universe Point?” (“Cette journée explorera l’Univers, la Matière, la Vie et la Conscience”), Paris, France.

  • Jan. 10, “the Emerging Church in the German Context” with Oliver Griebel, Lutheran Church, Stuttgart, Germany.

  • Jan. 25, faculty seminar on science and theology, Jesuit School of Theology, Graduate Theological Union.

  • Jan. 29, The Importance of Friendship between Muslims and Christians, Seattle, WA.

  • Jan. 31, “Human Responses to Global Climate Change: The Science, the Scenarios, and the Resources of Faith,” Gig Harbor Methodist Church, Gig Harbor, WA.

  • Feb. 11, “Next Steps Toward An Ecological Civilization,” Pilgrim Place, Claremont, CA.

  • Feb. 26, advisory meeting with the faculty, Earlham School of Theology, Richmond, IN.

  • March 3-5, co-organize and lead “Enfolding Theology,” a theology conference at Disciples Church in Redondo Beach, CA; multiple talks.

  • March 24, “How Science and Religion can Solve the Coming Zombie Apocalypse (or at least help with Climate Change),” University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasaw, OK; also teach two classes.

  • April 21, “Toward a Sustainable Civilization: New Directions in Environmental Ethics,” California State University Los Angeles.

  • April 30, “Organic Marxism and Ecological Civilization,” 10th Annual conference on Ecological Civilization, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA.

  • May 7, “Hizmet: A Moderate Muslim Movement,” San Jose, CA.

  • June 3, “How Radically Can God Be Reconceived before Ceasing to Be God?
    The Four Faces of Panentheism,” opening keynote, the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • June 21-23, “Science in Seminaries,” conference of the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion program of the American Association for the Advance of Science, Portland, ME. Talk repeated July 19-21, Portland, OR.

  • July 2-11, China Lecture tour, 12 lectures, including the annual Marxism conference of the CPC, with my book on Organic Marxism as the focus topic.

  • October 19-25, China Lecture tour, 10 lectures, including in Shanghai at a conference sponsored by the Chinese Academy for Social Science.

  • Nov. 9, “The Future of the Seminary,” Annual meeting of the CFOs of ATS, Orlando, FL.

  • Nov. 18-22, AAR: “Quakerism and the ‘Nones’: Contemporary Spirituality, Emergent Religion, and Maintaining Identity without Theology,” San Antonio, TX; roles in 3 other sessions.

For the full list of past speaking engagements, see my CV.